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...present Eugene Schneider, now sixty-six years old, that the Schneider-Creusot company began to work upon a gigantic, world-wide scale. Its real expansion began with the turn of the contury. Eugene Schneider acquired iron mines in Lorraine and began a program of mill, foundry, and shipyard building at Bordeaux and Toulon. And then, opportunely, the Russo-Japanese War arrived...
...their helmets. Down the cobbled street came the sharp squeal of bagpipes. Four hundred workmen, their tool bags slung over their shoulders, tramped behind the pipers and gaily sang "The Cunarder's restarting!" to the tune of "The Campbells are Coming." Through the gates of the John Brown Shipyard they went, and other workmen, busy on the 8,000-ton motorship for the New Zealand trade and several other ships, cheered them as they passed to a great hull which for two years has been all there was to show of the world's largest liner...
During the War Jack Dempsey got into trouble by posing as a riveter in a shipyard. The labor manager of Sun Ship-building Co. dressed him in overalls, snapped his picture to use in a campaign to recruit labor. When the public saw the photograph it concluded that Boxer Dempsey had really become a riveter to escape the draft. Last week there was hardly a ripple when another great fisticuffer actually did go into the shipbuilding business. James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney was a shipping clerk and went to War with the Marines while Jack Dempsey was posing as a riveter...
...Bremen and Europa, Italy's Conte dl Savoia and Rex. White Star's flagship Majestic is still the biggest ship afloat but soon she will be surpassed by France's Normandie. Balm for British pride lies on the ways of John Brown & Son's shipyard in Clydesbank, Scotland - Cunard's unfinished No. 534 (probable name: Princess Elizabeth), the skeleton of a 73,000-ton monster which will be "world's biggest & fastest" liner. Funds ran out and work was dropped on No. 534 two years ago. Last week, with the merger a fact, Neville...
...Wilhelm Poul (William) Knudsen, 54, head of General Motors' Chevrolet division, was made executive vice president in charge of all GM's manufacturing operations in the U. S. and Canada. A Dane from Copenhagen, he emigrated to the U. S. at 21, got a job in a shipyard, worked for Erie R. R., then shot up as an assembly man for Henry Ford. Quitting as manager of all Ford plants in 1921, he soon joined Chevrolet. A tall, slightly stooped man with a big walrus mustache, Motorman Knudsen is a genius of production and a hero...